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The Myth of the All-Powerful Superhero

By Noah Berlatsky — 2014

The supercrip narrative, disability rights groups say, mostly serves to make mainstream audiences feel awesome and inspired, while ignoring the actual difficulties faced by and prejudices directed at the vast majority of disabled people.

Read on www.esquire.com

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Intersectionality & Disability, The Keri Gray Group

Keri Gray, founder and CEO of the Keri Gray Group, advises young professionals, businesses, and organizations on issues around disability, race, gender, and intersectionality. Keri illustrates how the framework of intersectionality is essential to true inclusion.

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2020
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Triple Cripples| TEDxSussexUni - Empowerment as a Disabled, Black Woman

The dynamic duo of Jumoke and Kym tackle the topic of empowerment and what that means for disabled, Black women.

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2020
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disABILITY - Empowerment Through Employment (WVARF)

Work brings meaning, self-worth and empowerment to people with disabilities

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2016
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Uncovering: an Empowering Pathway to Disability Identity | Heather Evans | TEDxUofW

In her talk, Heather discusses empowering disability identity and reframing disability as a social construct. She explores, through personal stories, how discussing disability and practicing 'uncovering' can lead to a new societal understanding of disability.

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2018
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Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment

James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental...

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James I. Charlton
2000
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Disability and Body Image

Discussing what I think are the 5 biggest challenges that disabled people face in developing a healthy/positive body image and how I tackle them.

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2016
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Miracle Boy Grows Up: How the Disability Rights Revolution Saved My Sanity

Ben Mattlin lives a normal, independent life. Why is that interesting? Because Mattlin was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a congenital muscle weakness from which he was expected to die in childhood.

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Ben Mattlin
2012
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The Fundamentals of Caring

A man suffering a family loss enrolls in a class about care-giving that changes his perspective on life.

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2016
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Making Disability Modern: Design Histories

Making Disability Modern: Design Histories brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplinary and national perspectives to examine how designed objects and spaces contributes to the meanings of ability and disability from the late 18th century to the present day, and in homes, offices,...

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Elizabeth Guffey
2020
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Disability and Work: Let’s Stop Wasting Talent | Hannah Barham-Brown | TEDxExeter

Disability is still a barrier to employment for millions of people—but it doesn’t have to be this way. Drawing on her own experience in the medical profession, Hannah Barham-Brown argues that people with disabilities are an asset more employers need to harness.

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2019
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